Healthcare infrastructure problems in northern and rural areas of Canada mean that health disparities are greater than in urban areas. In Canada, rural residents have access to half as many physicians (one per 1000 residents) as their urban counterparts. As a result, people in northern and rural...
while Thailand strives to promote its LGBT-friendly image, the LGBT community is still facing stigmatization and pressure to adhere to mainstream social norms (World Bank Group,2018). Moreover, LGBT people in the labor market are still being discriminated...
America’s elderly suffer a far higher rate of poverty – defined as half the median income or lower – than their peers in other high-income countries. …the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom, 12% in Canada,...
Educators are seeing an increase in children arriving at school with poor vocabularies that are going to handicap them throughout life.
Yet human rabies deaths are rarely confirmed from any country in East Africa [3]. The lack of verified statistics documenting the extent of the burden from this notifiable disease contributes to its continued neglect [4]. Unlike in countries, where mass dog vaccination has been used to ...
Based on the date of CGSS which came from Renmin University of China in 2008, accorded to the new poverty line of 2300 $ and adopted the method of descriptive statistics and group comparison, this article studied the poverty headcounts and the poverty gap index, and analyzed the poverty about...
AbstractforDeterminants of Household Poverty in Ethiopia | Full Text | References | PDF (363.9 KB) | EPUB 361 Views 4 CrossRef citations 0Altmetric Article Legislated Poverty? An Intersectional Policy Analysis of COVID-19 Income Support Programs in Ontario, Canada Laura Pin, Leah Levac & Erin...
The population without access to these services determines the number of people living in energy poverty. EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) indicators are well-known examples of this energy poverty indicator. The Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH) classifies households into ...
The estimate of the causal effect using the WM method was consistent in magnitude for the bidirectional effects of LHI on ADHD and SZ and for the unidirectional effects of LHI on ANX, MDD and PTSD and of MHHI and HHI on ASD. Q statistics were suggestive of high levels of heterogeneity in...
in the production process along global supply chains. This would comprise mainly the populations of the rich countries such as the US, the EU, Japan, Australia, and Canada plus the elites of developing countries and transition economies. In comparison, the global poor or bottom 50% of income ...